AMD Shadow Launches New Budget Gaming GPU Radeon RX 7400 8 GB

AMD has officially revealed the new Radeon RX 7400 8 GB GPU by simply publishing a product page on the company’s website, without any special announcement.

As of the time of writing, the graphics card’s page even misses an image, just presenting the specs of the new GPU.

Designed for gaming and streaming experiences at 1080p, it supports Windows 11 and Windows 10 64-bit editions, as well as Ubuntu and Linux 64-bit versions.

The GPU memory includes 32 MB of AMD Infinity Cache, supports memory speeds up to 10.8 Gbps, and offers up to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit interface, providing a memory bandwidth of up to 173 GB/s with effective bandwidth reaching up to 362 GB/s. The Radeon RX 7400 8 GB typical board power consumption for desktop use is 55 watts, and the recommended minimum power supply is 450 watts.

The GPU features 28 compute units, 28 ray accelerators, and 56 AI accelerators. It delivers peak single-precision floating-point performance of 7.88 teraflops and peak half-precision performance of 15.77 teraflops, with the same performance level for half-precision matrix calculations. For lower precision tasks, it reaches 15.8 TOPs in 8-bit precision matrix operations and 31.5 TOPs for 4-bit precision matrix operations. The graphics card has 64 render output units, 1,792 stream processors, and 112 texture units, built using 13.3 billion transistors. The GPU’s power consumption goes up to 43 watts.

In terms of supported formats, Radeon RX 7400 offers HDMI 4K support, including 4K decode and encode for H264, 4K decode and encode for H265/HEVC, as well as AV1 decode and encode capabilities. Connectivity options include DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1, but it does not have a USB Type-C port.

The card measures 167 mm in length, fits a single slot, and supports a wide range of AMD technologies such as AMD Viewport Boost, AMD Remote Workstation, Radeon Media Engine, Radeon VR Ready Creator, Radeon ProRender, and software editions like Adrenalin and PRO. It also supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Noise Suppression, Radeon FRTC, Radeon Super Resolution, Smart Access Memory and Video, Privacy View, Radeon Boost, Anti-Lag, Image Sharpening, Enhanced Sync, FreeSync technology, Radeon Chill, and Virtual Super Resolution.